by Rajan Singh | Feb 9, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
I once knew a guy who had spent decades in investment banking and had climbed up the hierarchy but he was clueless about finance and deal-making. I often wondered how he got there. My guess is that in many organizations, if you don’t antagonize the right people,...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 6, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Why do we spend so much time in meetings, even when it’s a horrendous waste of our time and talent? One might say, “What choice do I have?” Who wants to ruffle feathers by declining or pushing back on meeting invites? That’s partly true. But...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 5, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Mid-career can be a dangerous place — you might become too expensive for the roles you can perform, and unwilling to take the roles you can get. This happens because aging is mandatory, but upskilling is optional. As we become older (‘senior’), in...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 4, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Before we graduated from college, our electrical engineering professor (I think it was Dr SS Prabhu) told us, “As you graduate, it is not enough to be technically competent — you also need a value system, without which, you are no better than a highly...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 3, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
In my first startup, I outsourced my product development to a small IT services company. In the beginning, things seemed okay. But soon, I was struggling with product-market fit (aka, nobody wanted my product). Instead of staying laser-focused on solving that problem,...
